The Greatest Raid of All
PHILLIPS, C .E. Lucas
With Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Heinemann, [1958]
Stock code: 48094
Price: £180.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 37 plates on 16, 22 illustrations, maps and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Francis Russell Flint. The first and still the best all-round account of Operation CHARIOT, the Combined Operations raid on St. Nazaire in 1942. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS NOW VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.392; Law 0475; Mulholland & Jordan L71.